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Summary: Unclear grub-install documentation
Project: GNU GRUB
Submitted by: saltyhorse
Submitted on: Fri 08 Dec 2017 12:25:50 PM UTC
Category: Documentation
Severity: Major
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release:
Release: Git master
Reproducibility: None
Planned Release: None
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Details:
The documentation for grub-install is vague in several places:
1)
In the "Installing GRUB using grub-install" section it says:
>The usage is basically very simple. You only need to specify one
>argument to the program, namely, where to install the boot loader. The
>argument has to be either a device file (like @samp{/dev/hda}).
Only one option follows "either". What's the other option?
2)
The "BIOS installation" section describes two ways to install GRUB:
* in the area between the MBR and the first partition
* the core image can be installed in a file system and a list of the blocks
that make it up can be stored in the first sector of that partition.
There is no information on how to perform each option.
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